NLRB 'respectfully disagrees' with ruling

The National Labor Relations Board on Friday declared that it remains open for business, despite a court ruling invalidating three of President Obama's appointees to the board.

"The Board respectfully disagrees with today’s decision and believes that the President’s position in the matter will ultimately be upheld," NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce said in a statement.

Pearce asserted that the ruling does not affect the board's orders outside of the case decided Friday, Noel Canning v. NLRB, and noted that "similar questions have been been raised in more than a dozen cases pending in other courts of appeals.

"In the meantime, the Board has important work to do," he said. "The parties who come to us seek and expect careful consideration and resolution of their cases, and for that reason, we will continue to perform our statutory duties and issue decisions."